Ran Zwigenberg
Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Jewish Studies
Director of Graduate Studies
203 Old Botany
Education:
B.A. Hunter College of the City University of New York
M. Phil. The Graduate Center City University of New York
Ph.D. The Graduate Center City University of New York
Biography:
Ran Zwigenberg is associate professor at Pennsylvania State University. His research focuses on modern Japanese and European history, with a specialization in memory and cultural history. He has taught and lectured in the United States, Europe, Israel, and Japan, and published on issues of war memory, atomic energy, psychiatry, heritage, regionalism, and survivor politics. Zwigenberg’s first book, Hiroshima: The Origins of Global Memory Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2014), won the 2016 Association for Asian Studies’ John W. Hall book award. His latest book, Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Chicago: University of Chicago, 2023) deals with the psychological aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. He also published co-authored books on the modern history of Japanese castles and punk music. For more information on these and other projects, please see https://sites.psu.edu/zwigenberg/